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A masculinity meze: face men
(This has turned out to be quite a large meze, but it’s only about one idiomatic slang expression. Well, men and masculinity come into the thing, and you know what can happen then.) Reflecting a couple...
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Vote for me!
From yesterday’s posting “Three responsibilities”: I voted today in Palo Alto — in the primary election whose official date is 6/7; official results are to be reported by 7/15, and then the top two...
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A physician writes to the NYT Magazine‘s ethicist about a patient who used a racist slur (the N-word) to his Black nursing staff and a homophobic slur (probably the queer F-word, but maybe the queer...
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Briefly: exocentric V + N
(Warning: a vulgar term for the primary female sexual anatomy will end up playing a big role in this posting.) Where this is going: to an alternative name for an American President (#45, aka TFG); and...
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Maternal shrillness on Zits
Today’s Zits strip manages to assemble three disparate bits of assumption about cognition into a joke about maternal shrillness: (#1) So shrill — in particular, so high-pitched — that it takes a ladder...
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Barthropods seeking silverfish
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, a complex composition in which two centipedes look for bar snacks: (#1) First bit of language play: the portmanteau barthropod = bar + arthropod, centipedes being...
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Received in e-mail this morning, from Dave Sayers on the Variationist mailing list: We are delighted to announce the next in the 2023-24 series of online guest seminars here in the English section at...
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Green grow the pickles, O
This remarkable photo left me dumbstruck yesterday when Monica Macaulay passed it along on Facebook, having gotten it from the Art Deco FB group on 10/10: The Pickle Sisters, a vaudeville group from...
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… in Stanford linguistics — the announcement: The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce a dissertation oral presentation on 6/12/24: Indexing Respectability by Zion Mengesha Committee: Penny...
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Dream blending
It appeared on Pinterest this morning, with no information beyond the artist’s name, Anthony Cudahy: a dreamlike sexual encounter like this one: (#1) Like this one, but with a significant dream penis...
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